Visual studio 2022 community will not export templates

Question

When I try to export a project template I get the following error dialog box

I tried a couple different projects and it's a no go
The drive path seems kind of weird
It is looking for a runtimes folder under the main project folder?

I know this worked ok on VS 2019, but I upgraded to 2022 recently

Answer 1

You should create an empty folder in the same path, and with the same name as the message error shows.

For the example, just create a folder like:

c:\Users\hoffm\documents\Visual Studio 2022\Projects\File Scan\runtimes

In this case, runtimes will be the empty folder.

And try again.

Answer 2

No good
I am not satisfied with 2022 community
It should not be that difficult to do the simple things I did with previous versions
It seems that are other problems also
Things that were not installed and there was not the FIX THIS PROBLEM link in the code

I am un-installing 2022 now and going back to 2019

Answer 3

Workaround that worked for me when I hit this same issue on the second export:

• Copy that target folder (so you don't loose your previous templates)
• Delete that folder, don't just empty it
• Exporting your project now works!
• Copy everything from the copy back to the correct place